Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...

Yesterday, I came out i.e., I am no longer a closet-blogger. It was an impulsive decision, more so because it was just too hard to keep this blog a secret from my closest friends and I was getting severe stomach aches (which diasappeared miraculously once I told everyone that I write this blog!!). I could hardly contain myself after I published the blog's url on my facebook account status and I immediately called up all my close friends and forced them into reading the blog. Then I kept checking my comments section every 5 minutes hoping, rather expecting a stupendous overwhelming response to my very upbeat, cool and sensational blog. But alas! it was not to be. Hardly anyone commented (my narcissist head hung in shame), though I am sure everyone (everyone that I forced to read) read the blog and called me to say nice things to me. So all-in-all, I am feeling happy type things and am thankful to everyone who read this space belonging to an over enthusiastic greenhorn.

Enough of my first-day-in-school-kinda description above. Lets move on to other things that occupied me today (other than obssesively checking the comment section of the blog...ok ok I will stop now..promise).

Went to the office without the charger for my laptop. Now this laptop is a very precious one, because if I was to sell it now, it won't fetch me a "second-hand item" price like any other used laptop, but rather an "antique item" booty. So you get the drift...and our office is full of this particular kind of laptop variety. I din't think too much of forgetting the charger though, as I decided to share GR's charger with me. But God had his own designs..the moment I would take the charger out to return to GR, my laptop would go on stand-by. I searched and I searched in vain...everyone who attempted to share their chargers with me had their computers showing them "Preparing to standby" messages the moment the charger was removed from their laptops. Finally CC suggested that I go back home and get the charger and even offered us his car (I suspect that the generosity was a bait to get me off his back, since every 5 minutes I would go upto his desk and wail about the incompetency/unavailability of chargers). So GR and I, braving the merciless afternoon sun went out to the parking lot to get CC's car. To our utter dismay there already was one car in front and one at the back of CC's car (please note I am just about learning to drive in Mumbai) and there was noway I could I have wriggled the car out of that space. We called the parking-guy, who very ingeniously took out a metal scale/ruler, very deftly inserted it near the window glass of the car in front of me (all the while GR and I went - tch tch tch) and voila! the car's gate opened- and wait this is not over- the parking-guy and his accomplices manually lifetd the car and turned it, so that we could get our car by. Finally we got out of the parking lot with the car and drove to my place and realised that I was not carrying the house keys. We drove back avoiding/cursing all the pedestrians who seemed to wait for me to appear and then would dive directly in front of the car. Everytime this happened my heart would also jump to my mouth! GR kept soothing me with words like "koi nahi" (when I would put the 1st gear from 2nd in full speed thinking it was the 3rd gear) and "perfect" (when I managed to take a u-turn on like-a-1-km wide road). But I have realised one thing- When I am driving I hate pedestrians and when I am walking I hate the drivers.

When we reached back, I remembered the fate of the car which was parked in front of us which had to undergo such unnecessary manhandling, just because the owner refused to leave the keys with the parking-guy. I shuddered,left the keys (more than willingly) with the parking-guy and ran with the precious charger to my laptop and connected it. Few would be able to imagine the relief that swept over me when I saw that little light on my laptop indicating that the charger was duly connected and would keep my laptop well fed during the next howsoevermany hours! The joy that trivial things bring you sometimes is incomprehensible

I bet you have fallen asleep before you read this line.

Ciao.